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TCDD E68000
🇹🇷 Turkey ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2013· Series of Turkish electric locomotives
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. E 68 017: İhsanfb77· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. E68030 at Basmane: Btian P. Dorsam· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. DE11000 and E68000 at Basmane: Btian P. Dorsam· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. E68000 2025: Kayra· CC BY 4.0
- 5. TCDD E68000s @ Halkalı, İstanbul Turkey November 2023: Zach1055· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
TCDD E68000 (stylised as E 68 000 on painted registration numbers) is a series of electric locomotives used by the Turkish State Railways. The locomotives have a power output of 5,000 kW and are capable of 140 km/h (87 mph) speed.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 13 years ago, in 2013.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 5 MW is about 59 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 2013–2015
- in service from
- 2013
- number built
- 80
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem, TÜLOMSAŞ
- designer
- Hyundai Rotem
- operators
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV 50 Hz AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 86 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28444692, Wikipedia: TCDD E68000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.